The Observer (Adelaide)

{{Short description|Newspaper published in Adelaide, Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{italic title}} '''''The Observer''''', previously '''''The Adelaide Observer''''', was a Saturday newspaper published in [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]] from July 1843 to February 1931. Virtually every issue of the newspaper (under both titles) has been digitised and is available online through the [[National Library of Australia]]'s [[Trove]] archive service.<ref name="title">{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-title823 |title=Observer (Adelaide, SA : 1905–1931) |access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref>

== History == [[File:Adelaide Observer masthead, 25 September 1897.jpg|thumb|300px|The Adelaide Observer masthead in 1897]] [[File:The Observer (Adelaide) masthead, 5 January 1907.jpg|thumb|300px|The masthead after the paper was renamed]] === ''The Adelaide Observer'' === The newspaper was founded on 1 July 1843<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158917178 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[Adelaide Observer]] |date=1 July 1843 |access-date=9 March 2015 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> by [[John Stephens (editor)|John Stephens]], its sole proprietor, as a replacement for [[George Dehane]]'s ''Examiner'', which ran from 25 November 1841 to 24 June 1843.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article263775457 |title=To Our Readers |newspaper=The Examiner |volume=2 |issue=CXII |location=South Australia |date=24 June 1843 |accessdate=17 June 2025 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Both were printed by Dehane at his establishment on [[Morphett Street, Adelaide|Morphett Street]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158917172 |title=Facetiae |newspaper=The Adelaide Observer |volume=I |issue=1 |location=South Australia |date=1 July 1843 |access-date=9 December 2019 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> adjacent [[Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide|Trinity Church]].

In 1845 Stephens purchased another local newspaper, the ''[[South Australian Register]]''.

=== ''The Observer'' === On 7 January 1905, the newspaper was renamed ''The Observer'', whose masthead later proclaimed "The Observer. News of the world, politics, agriculture, mining, literature, sport and society. Established 1843".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/19117827|title=(Masthead)|work=Observer|location=Adelaide|page=1|via=Trove|access-date=2018-02-16}}</ref> In February 1931, the ailing [[Great Depression|Depression]]-hit newspaper, along with ''[[The Register (Adelaide)|The Register]]'' and other sister publications, was taken over by ''[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]]'' and shut down.

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==External links== * {{trove newspaper|823|Observer|Adelaide, SA : 1905 - 1931}}

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